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Miles Watson
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STORYTELLING AND THE MORAL COMPASS: THE EAGLE HAS LANDED VS. WHERE EAGLES DARE
Today I want to conduct a bit of a thought experiment. The issue is the moral compass as it works in storytelling. The subjects are both bestselling novels which also became hit movies -- "Where Eagles Dare" and "The Eagle Has Landed." I selected these films because of their very close similarities both in terms of genre, setting, time period and general plot points, and because of the sharply dif
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“I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort that he comes across, so that the knowledge which might be useful to him gets crowded out, or at best is jumbled up with a lot of other things, so that he has a difficulty in laying his hands upon it. Now the skillful workman is very careful indeed as to what he takes into his brain-attic. He will have nothing but the tools which may help him in doing his work, but of these he has a large assortment, and all in the most perfect order. It is a mistake to think that that little room has elastic walls and can distend to any extent. Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.”
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| Errol Flynn died shortly after the completion of his only two books -- an autobiography, MY WICKED, WICKED WAYS and this novel, SHOWDOWN, a semi-autobiographical tale set in the South Seas circa the 1930s. Both works showed incredible promise: not me ...more | |
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"Such is the currency of secrets, and the alliances they forge." This is the most discomfiting novel I have ever read. It was disturbing, unsettling, haunting. It went to the very darkest places of human experience, and nudged me along with it. I use ...more |
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“It wasn’t fair, but maybe Tommy was right on that score. Maybe a man didn’t have no right to ask for fair. Maybe a man made fair for himself.”
― Pleas and Thank Yous
― Pleas and Thank Yous
“It is no easy thing to be in your mid-twenties and realize that, holy shit, this is it, this is as good as it gets, and from here it's all downhill, the fun's over, the hijinks have jinked their last, nothing lies ahead but drudgery and toil and a sagging belly and death. It's harder yet when a stupid bitch, a numbfuck cunt, one of those horrible sweet-smelling OMG types who wouldn't talk to you in high school and sure as fuck won't talk to you now, takes position on your elbow with a cell phone jammed into her cheek, yammering away. Because who wants to listen to the stream of shit coming out of her mouth? Gossip about friends. Gossip about enemies. Gossip about celebrities. Gossip about gossip. Not a thought in her head. Not a fact. Nothing of interest. Nothing of worth. Just an avalanche of verbal rubbish. The Patriots took on the Redcoats, the Blue fought the Gray, the National Guard stormed the beaches of Normandy, so this submoronic cretin could stand here in her designer boots and talk about what happened at the club last night.”
― A Fever In The Blood
― A Fever In The Blood
“The course she was on was as fixed and unalterable as the trajectory of a bullet, but you could see she did not believe that. No one in the life ever believed it. They saw a dozen, a hundred, a thousand people precede them into the trap, saw how unvarying and pitiless the end was, and with all that fresh in their minds they did the same, of their own free will.”
― Cage Life
― Cage Life
“New York, I thought, was a city defined by its flaws. In every possible way, its virtues were overwhelmed by its vices, as Jekyll was by Hyde. Yet it was these very vices that gave the city its character - like tar in an oak barrel lending its flavor to Scotch.”
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“I thought fleetingly of Anne, how the faces changed but the act was always the same, the need was always the same, no one drew a line between the sex you bought and the love you made, and your body could not tell the difference.”
― Cage Life
― Cage Life
“Kraut was a stand-up guy in the old tradition, in a strange way reminiscent of my father in his steadfast refusal to abandon a position once he had taken it. It was a quality I lacked, and so admired in others when they weren't using it to beat me to the canvas or break my heart.”
― Cage Life
― Cage Life
“The course she was on was as fixed and unalterable as the trajectory of a bullet, but you could see she did not believe that. No one in the life ever believed it. They saw a dozen, a hundred, a thousand people precede them into the trap, saw how unvarying and pitiless the end was, and with all that fresh in their minds they did the same, of their own free will.”
― Cage Life
― Cage Life
“He looked like an idol consecrated to the gods of arrogance. Damned if I would bow.”
― Cage Life
― Cage Life